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All I did was plug in text from this post and this post, and it was definitively confirmed…
Hey, Dr. Karl Hufbauer – you and your C+ dismissal of my Freshman Billy Budd paper can kiss my baby tuckoo!
What can I say? I try to keep C&B more on the Dubliners/Portrait of the Artist end of things than going all Ulysses or Finnegan’s Wake up in here. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: college, Dubliners, Ireland, James Joyce, literature, words, writers
Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be stalkers. Especially if your babies are dumber than a box of rocks.
Via the L.A. Times:
A trial began this week in the case of a man accused of stalking and making threatening phone calls to a Huntington Beach police detective.
Brian Dopler, 27, is charged with felony criminal threats and stalking of the detective between Jan. 8 and Feb. 10, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
Look, I understand that stalking isn’t exactly a logic-driven crime… but if you can’t at least pick your spots better than that, you really should get out less often. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: cops, L.A. Times, news media, profanity, stalker, voicemail, Woody Allen
Here’s the idea: make a Google Map wherein each placemark on the map contains a link to an audio or video source of that place’s authentic accent/dialect — for example, documentaries which can be rented or found at libraries, or radio segments that are archived online (like at the NPR website, and the sites of some specific public radio shows). The important thing is that the media sources contain the speech of ordinary people (i.e., non-actors). See also the screenshot at right for an example of what a placemark on the map would look like.
Great idea or dumb idea? Vote in the comments. And comment in the comments, if you are moved to do so.
Tags: accents, acting, actors, dialects, documentaries, Google Maps, ideas, NPR
God loves babies, and the women they rode in on. Pure and simple. Too simple, as a matter of fact.
Andrew Sullivan included this image earlier today in a post titled “The Cult of Palin”:
The core and calculated meme behind her appeal to the Christianist base — allegedly carrying a child to term when others might not — is already being propagated.
I’m not sure why he says “already,” since they’ve been trumpeting about this for quite awhile. Nevertheless, the point stands: they’re lionizing Palin for carrying to term a Down’s Syndrome child when she was 44 rather than having an abortion. That was the choice she made.
Which is exactly the point: it was a choice. And look, now they’re even using the c-word in the title of their little straight-to-video propaganda movies. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: abortion, Andrew Sullivan, Christianity, James Dobson, NSFW, Pat Robertson, pro-choice, Sarah Palin, Storm Large
OMG, listen to what he says to Obama during the applause!
Really, I am flabbergasted. That is just plain inappropriate, and I can’t imagine what possessed him to say it. I know Biden is prone to gaffes, but this is major. Think about it: after scratching and clawing through the fetid political muck for well over a year, Obama signed the historic health care reform bill into law, and Biden says it’s “A big fucking deal?”
No I say, NO! Ho-ly FUCKING shit, it is a HUGE fucking deal! I mean, fuck me running, that is ass-kickingly goddamned big. Suck it, FOX News punditiots, because Yes We Did! Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: George Carlin, health care reform, Joe Biden, news media, Obama, profanity, punditiots, Tea Party, teabaggers, words, wtf?
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Some of you may have noticed that comments on recent posts have gone missing. If you haven’t noticed, I sure as hell have. Posts since November 2009 that had comments still say that they do in the meta-link at the top of the post (e.g. “2 comments,” etc.), but those comments just don’t appear at [...]
As some of you may recall, back on February 4th I put up a post which began:
It’s February 4th, assholes. Do you still actually think the city garbage men are going to pick up your Christmas tree?
Why mention it again, lo these many months later? Yes, I’m afraid so:
Don’t say it.
But you-
Don’t even say it, because I know.
[in unison]
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Oh my God, I thought you had quit blogging.
Told you I knew.
Of course you knew, we’re the same person. What, d’you think you’re cool because you can read your own mind?
A lot of the public doesn’t realize how sophisticated the [pharmaceutical industry's] marketing techniques have become, really over the last 10 years… Essentially when a pharmaceutical company gets FDA approval for a drug, their marketing department can assure their bosses that they are going to be able to sell the drug, really whether the drug [...]
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